RFR: 8132306: java/lang/ref/ReferenceEnqueue.java fails with "RuntimeException: Error: poll() returned null; expected ref object"

[Kim Barrett]

On Jul 30, 2015, at 5:33 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> So I think I can either:
>> 
>> 1. Go ahead with my change + Peter's change.
>> 
>> 2. Give this back to core-libs while I step carefully away :-)
>> 
>> I *think* option (1) is at least an improvement.  But I completely
>> missed Peter's race, despite having specifically looked for problems
>> there, so take my opinion with an appropriate quantity of salt.
> 
> I vote for 1 as well. I think we have now given good coverage to the two sources of problems (the two lock-free regions):
> - reference queue state can be seen while queue state is in transition
> - queue empty state can be seen while reference state is in transition

New webrev, with both changes:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kbarrett/8132306/webrev.01/